Index of of the SongsIn Beadle's Song Books, 1858 to 1870

INCLUDED IN THIS INDEX are the titles of all the songs published by Beadle and Adams in 118 of the 121 Songsters described in The House of Beadle and Adams," Vol. I, pages 380 to 395. The exceptions are The Chanticleer Songster and Archy Hughes' George the Charmer Songster (Nos. 43 and 63 of the following list), neither of which was located in any private collection or in any of the large public or university libraries. Irwin P. Beadle's New No. 2, American Song Book (No. 39 of the list) is also not indexed, for it is doubtful that it was ever issued.

Some songs were reprinted many times in different Songsters. The total number of songs is about 6,600, of which 3,788 are different. For ease of reference, the booklets in which the various songs appeared are designated in this index by numbers instead of abbreviations. The latter would be confusing, cumbersome, and difficult to identify, and do not show the sequence of publication.

The following list gives the approximate dates of appearance of the various Songsters and the pages and figure numbers in The House of Beadle and Adams. From most titles, the initial "a," "an," and "the" are omitted except when the title consists of but a single word or where the omission changes the meaning, e.g., "The Kiss," "The Outcast," "The Countersign," etc. In such cases the article is given after the title.

Wait for the turn of the tide: 86
Wait for the wagon: 1, 7, 85
Waiting at the old linden tree: 41, 114
Waiting for a Broadway stage: 59, 118
Waiting for papa: 74, 79
Waiting for the May: 2, 4, 8, 95
Wait, my little one, wait!: 44, 114
Wait till the moonlight falls on the water: 84
Wake! Dinah, wake!: 11, 81
Wake Nicodemus: 33, 35, 113
Wake not my darlings: 110
Wake of Long Barney McShane: 71
Walking down Broadway: 61, 67, 88, 118
Walking in the park: 59, 69, 120
Walking through the common: 65, 119
Walking through the snow: 69
Walk off, Big Shoes: 65, 120
Walk, walk, walk: 61, 118
Wandering boy from home: 44, 48, 114
Wapping old stairs: 59
Warning to parients [sic]: 61, 118
Warning to you, lads, who want to go to sea: 98
Warren's address: 15
Warrior bold: 90
War song: 15
Washing-day: 22
Washington and Lincoln: 31, 37
Washington, star of the West: 11, 26, 78, 93
Was my brother in the battle?: 108
Watcher, The: 11, 46, 100
Watching at the window: 45, 116
Watching for pa: 29, 36, 109
Watchword, The: 19
Waterford boys: 91
'Way down in Cairo: 14, 101
'Way down in Dixie: 37
'Way down in Maine: 20, 36, 55, 103
Way my daddy went: 74, 93
Way to be happy: 83
We all get jolly as the night: 93
We all wear cloaks: 69
We are all growing old: 92
We are all noddin': 13
We are all so fond of kissing: 6, 10, 94
We are coming Father Abraham: 21
We are coming home tomorrow: 41
We are coming sister Mary: 14, 42, 92
We are growing old together: 6, 10, 92
We are marching on to victory: 35
We are out on the ocean sailing: 90
Wearing of the green: 90
Wearing the blue: 88
We can't agree: 92
We can't do without the merry chink, chink,
chink: 90
We'd better be happy than rich: 92
We'd better bide a wee: 89
Weeping, sad and lonely: 24
Weep no more for Lily: 30 110
Weep on Weep on, weep on: 28
Weep, Pompey, weep: 30, 94
Welcome, happy day: 77
We'll fight for Uncle Abe: 30
We'll go down ourselves: 29
We'll go with Grant again: 44, 60
We'll have a little dance tonight, boys: 11, 30, 40,
92, 111
We'll have to get the style: 47, 48, 117
We'll march round the world: 62
Well mated: 59, 118
We'll meet in heaven, father: 18, 102
We'll never be drunkards: 77
We'll rally again: 60
We met beneath an awning: 73
We met by chance: 11, 40, 91
We might as well be jolly: 65, 119
We miss thee at home: 5, 9, 93
We're coming, sister Mary: 14, 42, 92
Werry pekooliar: 24, 106
We's a-gwine to fight: 35
We sail the ocean blue: 121
We's gwine to heah from home: 108
We shall be known above: 32, 112
We stand here united: 2, 4, 8, 19, 38, 60, 89
Western trappers' camp song: 18, 101
Westward ho!: 59, 118
Wet nurse of Washington Square: 71
Wet sheet and a flowing sea: 18, 37, 48, 93
We've drunk from the same canteen: 41, 48
We were boys and girls together: 6, 10, 93
We will hold our own: 90
We will not retreat any more: 24, 106
Whack, row-de-dow: 19
What are the wild waves saying?: 18, 27, 33, 51,
92, 98
What can the matter be?: 13
What care I how fair she be?: 47, 88, 117
What does little birdie say?: 110
What fairy-like music: 18, 102
What is home without a mother?: 2, 4, 8, 85
What is home without a sister?: 12, 100
What is home without a wife?: 108
What is this emotion?; 103
What Josie said: 64
What makes 'em wiggle so?: 90
What Mollie said: 76
What Norah said: 48, 61
What other name than thine, mother: 2, 4, 8, 95
What our girls are coming to: 65, 120
What our swells are coming to: 65, 120
What said the angels?: 47
What's a woman like?: 75
What's de matter, Uncle Sam?: 73
What shall be my angel name?: 2
What shall my song be tonight: 59
What the little lips are saying: 99
What the old cock sparrow said: 93
What the papers say: 92
What were all the works without thee? 80
What will Jack say?: 110
What will Mrs. Grundy say?: 5, 9, 92
What would mamma say?: 111
When a man's a little bit poorly: 69
When Brown comes rolling home: 86
When Charley's in the box: 94
When daylight was yet sleeping under the
billows: 71
Whene'er I see those smiling eyes: 28
Whene'er I think of thee: 108
When fairies are lighted: 25
When Fenians fight for freedom: 41
When first I met thee: 28
When grandmamma is gone: 61
When I bade good-by to Phoebe: 62
When I courted Mary Ann: 75
When I saw sweet Nellie home: 11, 97
When I took our Nance to church: 89
When I was a lad (Pinafore): 121
When I was a little child: 25
When I was young:65
When I went courting Sallie: 73
When Johnny comes marching home: 32, 33, 37, 87
When lovers say "Good-night": 45, 116
When mother was here: 117
When my dreams come true: 106
When my ship comes in: 47, 93
When no one else is by: 73
When old friends were here: 29, 109
When our ships wander home: 113
When sadly I remember the hour we parted: 26
When Sammy comes home: 62
When silver locks replace the gold: 108
When tempted to wander: 13
When the band begins to play: 75, 88
When the birds have gone to sleep: 107
When the blossoms are white in the orchard: 86
When the blue billows: 27
When the boys come home: 32
When the clock strikes five: 66
When the corn is waving Annie dear: 65, 100
When the evening shades are falling: 99
When the Evening Star went down: 47
When the flowers fall asleep: 81
When the good times come again: 95
When the little birds are singing in the garden:
87, 104
When the milk goes round: 76, 93
When the moon with glory brightens: 31, 111
When the pigs begin to fly: 80
When the roses bloom: 94
When these old clothes were new: 89
When the swallows homeward fly: 11, 97
When the wine cup is smiling: 105
When thinking of those who are dearest: 71
When this cruel war is over: 24, 30, 33, 34, 54, 105
When we grow old: 66 When we met at Heaven's gate: 113
When we meet on the sly: 76
When we meet to part no more: 99
When we were boys together: 25
When will he come back to me? 31, 111
When will my darling boy return?: 31, 111
When you and I were boys: 99
When you and I were girls: 59
When you sung yourself into my heart: 111
When you wash a nigger white: 93
When you were seventeen, Maggie: 74
Where are now the hopes I cherished?: 6, 110
Where are the old friends?: 12, 99, 116
Where art thou now, my beloved?: 99
Where is home?: 3
Where is Kathleen?: 112
Where is my Nancy?: 66
Where liberty dwells, there is my country: 17, 37, 78
Where's Stonewall Jackson?: 21
Where the bee sucks, there suck 1: 59
Where the bright waves are dashing: 2, 4, 8
Where the ivy so green: 111
Where there's a will, there's a way: 88
Where the water lilies grow: 90
Where was Moses when the light went out?: 107
Wherewithal, The: 29, 108
While the gas-light is burning: 68, 95
While there's life there's hope: 76
While the sun was shining: 72, 74
Whisky, you're the divil: 87
Whisperings of love: 65, 82
Whisper in the twilight: 118
Whisper it softly: 72, 81
Whisper now to me of home: 111
Whistling thief: 61
White cockade: 30, 110
White squall: 65
Whoa, Charley: 93
Whoa, Emma (old version): 79
Whoa, Emma (new version) : 79
Whoever can he be?: 31, 111
Who'll have me?: 14, 56, 89
Whoop de doodle do: 11
Who's coming out for a midnight ramble?: 98
Who shall rule this American nation?: 60
Who will care for Micky now ?: 25
Who will care for mother now?: 24, 33, 79
Who will care for mother now?. Answer to: 23
Why can't I have a beau?: 79
Why chime the bells so merrily?: 12, 100
Why do I weep for thee?: 3, 24, 106
Why don't I change my name ?: 75
Why don't the men propose?: 12, 99
Why don't you come and see me?: 88
Why don't you name the day, Kathleen?: 74
Why don't you write to me: 65
Why have my loved ones gone?: 18, 81
Why not?: 61, 72
Why should you sigh?: 72
Why was I looking out?: 45, 116
Wickedest man in New York: 62, 119
Widders beware: 67
Widow, The: 59
Widow Machree: 3, 4, 8, 22, 38, 65, 85
Widow Malone: 20, 103
Widow Mavrone: 76
Widow's dream: 27
Widow's son: 111
Wife of my bosom: 17
Wife's dream: 77
Wild rose, The: 18, 102
Wild Tiadatton: 3
Will a monkey climb a tree?: 87
Will he never come?: 24, 34, 106
William of the ferry: 11, 98
Willie brew's a peck o' maut: 28
Willie has gone to the war: 30
Willie'll roam no more: 1, 7, 88
Willie, meet me at the gate: 73
Willie, my brave!: 14, 42, 100
Willie's on the dark blue sea: 4, 8, 92
Willie, we have missed you: 1, 2, 7, 86
Willie will never come again: 23
Will mother know me in the sky?: 94
Will nobody marry me?: 12, 22, 27, 36, 99
Willow cot: 26, 108
Willow spring: 47
Will the dear old times come back again?: 107
Will you come to meet me, darling?: 31, 34, 42, 111
Will you harken for my footsteps?: 99
Will you list to me, Nellie?: 14, 101
Will you love me just a little?: 96
Will you love me then, darling?: 11, 44, 115
Will you meet me?: 97
Will you wed me now I'm lame, love?: 31
Winds that waft my sighs to thee: 3
Wind thy horn, my hunter boy: 105
Wine-cup, The: 77
Winking at me: 61, 90, 117
Winnie Lee: 27
Winsome Winnie: 3
Winter sleigh-bell song: 4, 8, 25 85
Wishing gate: 64
Wishing well: 74
Wit and beauty: 25
Within a mile of Edinboro' town: 6, 10, 25, 80
Within the sound of the enemy's guns: 20
Woman in white: 75
Woman is going to vote: 61
Woman's resolution: 20, 103
Woman that lives next door: 97
Won't you tell me why, robin?: 107
Woodman, spare that tree: 5, 9, 33, 83
Words of kindness: 69
Words of sympathy: 17
Words to remember: 102
Working boy: 13
Work, work: 3
Would I were a boy again: 6,10, 38, 96
Would I were a girl again: 6,10, 96
Would I were with thee: 6, 10, 26, 86
Wouldn't you like to know: 24, 42, 106
Would you if you were me?: 85
Wounded hussar: 15
Wounded soldier: 19
Wreck of the emigrant ship: 110
Write to me often, darling: 87
Write to me over the water, love: 97